Ah yes, the 60s. When the pre-flight briefing consisted of 'remember to go around the 12ft pole'

Ah the good old days, when everything had a porn soundtrack

@HerbertDuckshort

3 жыл бұрын

Hi. I’ve come to repair your jet nozzles.....

@yamabushi170

3 жыл бұрын

@@HerbertDuckshort Oooh you'll have to do it while I'm getting my undercarriage serviced.

@dorsetdumpling5387

3 жыл бұрын

...and H and S was a mucky magazine.....or was that H and E?.....so hard to remember stuff these days......did I take my tablets?....am I on tablets?

@jerribee1

3 жыл бұрын

@@dorsetdumpling5387 😄😄😄

@PhilbyFavourites

3 жыл бұрын

@@HerbertDuckshort sir, you hit the nail on the head with that one. Is that why the pilots of the day had big droopy moustaches?

Any of that kind of stuff today would certainly result in no tea and biscuits meeting with the CAA these days.

@daveco4645

3 жыл бұрын

Actually the MAA but I catch your drift

@daveco4645

3 жыл бұрын

@anglovirtual you do realise MAA means Military airworthiness authority. As for drones im glad the CAA are interested

@Raptor2233

3 жыл бұрын

@anglovirtual You must be a joy at parties

@jonahwale721

3 жыл бұрын

@@daveco4645 its also Military Aviation Authority.

@steve1978ger

3 жыл бұрын

@@daveco4645 - drone scare is a thing though, harmless hobbyists are treated like terror suspects in some places

The Gnat was a beautiful aeroplane for The Reds. It had a fantastic rate of roll and it's 45 degree sweep meant that when they were in Diamond they formed a perfect square. It was a shame that they were ageing and had to be replaced, those of us who are old enough to remember, missed them when they went.

@accobra383

3 жыл бұрын

Crap, I remember when they were called the Black Arrows with Hawker Hunters!!!

@daveco4645

3 жыл бұрын

@@accobra383 really..?

@hoppinonabronzeleg9477

3 жыл бұрын

I remember flying into Exeter airport in 2007, there were loads of private Hunters parked there. All gone now thanks to Shoreham 2015! Bet the Gnat is now history in private hands except very rich people in the US & other ex colonial countries!

@bobswan6196

2 жыл бұрын

@@accobra383 That was 111 squadron. The predecessors of the Red Arrows were the Yellowjacks, flying yellow Gnats.

@gregtaylor6146

Жыл бұрын

@@hoppinonabronzeleg9477 - Is that right, are there no more privately owned hunters flying in the UK?

Awesome! I went to school as a kid in Gloucestershire, so saw them quite often. One of our teachers was married to an Arrows pilot, and on her birthday the team did a full routine over our school for her! That was in 1972. Prefer the Gnats to the Hawk, TBH.

@nelsonclub7722

3 жыл бұрын

I lived near Staverton Airport growing up where we had a free air show in our garden every year!!!!!

Aah! The good old pre- health and safety years...!

@Jabber-ig3iw

3 жыл бұрын

Yep good old years of people dying at work and catching dangerous lung diseases🙄🙄 It’s so easy to spot a twat on KZread, they think health and safety is a bad thing🙄🙄

@smurphy1977

3 жыл бұрын

@@Jabber-ig3iw You do realize you are the definition of a twat with that pansy take.

@cf1925

3 жыл бұрын

@@Jabber-ig3iw Did you not realize it was a *fucking joke?* Who am I kidding. This is the internet. Nevermind.

@usmctate

3 жыл бұрын

@@Jabber-ig3iw Here ladies and gentleman we see a native fuckwit moron in their native habitat. Ladies and gentleman please turn off your flash on your cameras and smartphones as we do not want to send the fuckwit moron into another triggered episode.

@thert.hon.thelordnicholson7261

3 жыл бұрын

@@smurphy1977 Bloody snowflakes can't handle a bit of asbestos poisoning can they?! Not like in your day eh? You'd graft down't pit 22 hours a day and if you developed emphysema you'd be grateful for it. Fucking plum.

Amazing pilots. That music... pure gold!

My father you recently passed away at 99 was an officer in the RAF when this was filmed and had the entire team autograph a photograph which he gave to me. I was 8. Unfortunately shortly after that show two pilots collided and were killed during a scissor cut practice. May they RIP

That video & music was chaos! Im hung over. Didnt need that KZread

you have to go to airshows in eastern europe to see this sort of thing nowadays

@zxbzxbzxb1

3 жыл бұрын

Which goes well... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sknyliv_air_show_disaster

@TachyonDriver

3 жыл бұрын

@@zxbzxbzxb1 Thats what happens when you have a flight plan with errors in it and you are also denied an additional training flight to practice ... my conjecture is that the crew were pressured by the "show must go on" mentality.

Some time later, Jan 1971, still flying Gnats, the two solos hit each other head on at Kemble, during an opposition manoeuvre `Roulette'. All 4 pilots were killed, including a good friend, John Lewis. RIP guys.

@rodthebass

3 жыл бұрын

Both John Lewis and John Haddock were my instructors on the JP course at Syerston. Great memories- great guys, such a waste.😔

@rolonow12

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for that Rod, I was a Halton Apprentice (96th) with John, and met him at BZN a week or so before his crash. All a long time ago now, but seems like yesterday I was chatting to him under the wing of a VC10.

@spanishpeaches2930

3 жыл бұрын

@@rodthebass My late dad operated out of Syerston during the War. He was a Lanc pilot with 49 Sq.

As a young boy growing up in the 60’s, we used to watch the ‘Reds’ training over Cardigan Bay. Awesome then, awesome now! Still the best in the world.

Holy mother of incredible insanity that take off!

@anthonyeaton5153

Жыл бұрын

I have witnessed the Arrow Gnats doing this and also Javelins on excessive take offs. Just as low.

Those take-offs were amazing!!

@hb1338

Жыл бұрын

Get yourself to Scampton in spring time and watch them practise their formation take offs. Quite good !

And they got Ron Burgundy to play his Jazz flute to the display, Amazeballs!

@imadrifter

Жыл бұрын

ok

@Jin-Ro

Жыл бұрын

lol

@imadrifter

Жыл бұрын

@@Jin-Ro ayyyy it's the lil dic tator from the lil peninsula

The red arrows displays at the British F1 grand prix’s at Brand Hatch in the 70’s up to the mid 80’s were just bonkers by today’s safety standards. When doing the dual display section of the display, the two aircraft would pass over the grandstands at about 100ft, then drop to about 50-60ft above the track to do the high speed passes. It was stunning to watch but it would have been carnage if something went wrong. It was the also the same when the British Airways Concorde and the Vulcan bomber flew over the track very low (by today’s standards) and climbed away near vertical with the afterburners lit up, the sound shook everything and everybody. Windows were smashing, pint glasses vibrating off of tables and women and kids screaming.

@spanishpeaches2930

3 жыл бұрын

Fabulous. I remember as a kid a Lightning crushing my chest with a low pass !

@misterree1443

3 жыл бұрын

That all sounds fricken amazing.

@FlightSimMuseum

3 жыл бұрын

Sounds great!

@joschmoyo4532

2 жыл бұрын

That's nothing. I remember a red arrows pilot grabbing the beer out of my hand without even blowing the froth off. And he paid for it too. THAT was a low pass.

@rallycar6922

Жыл бұрын

@@joschmoyo4532 bro u made my day

Closer to the ground than the motorcycle display team. Nice!

I remember being at the 1977 British GP and being seeing the way the Red Arrows being so low they left their smoke in the grass… ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Big up for the old RAF Church Fenton Displays, those were the days before being placed 3 miles away from the action.

@nervo6321

3 жыл бұрын

Absolutely i went to many Church Fenton Airshows...one highlight being the 1975 Lightning display which finished with very high speed left to right pass at low level followed by a high rate roll climb out that literally tore a cloud apart.

@MrNeilRoberts

Жыл бұрын

Me too very fond memories of Church Fenton displays … the Lighting version of vertical take off full after burners and the sky literally cracked open 😊

I was lucky enough to see the red arrows perform locally in Southport and it was gorgeous very talented chaps. Can’t lie❤

I was a civy driver at RAF Cranwell and they asked for a volunteer to take a tanker down to North Weald to refuel the Red Arrows. I volunteered and from memory it was a Bank holiday 1967. I was a way 3 days, 1 day to get there, 1 day at the display and 1 day to get back. The tanker was on a S type Bedford with a petrol engine. Not very fast hence a day to get there and a day to get back.

An era when Air Force was about charm, style, personality and hotshot aviators.

Aaah the good old days before health and safety! Lol pretty amazing video! 😁👍

1960's tech with 1960's video editing and Jazz flute. Nice!

@gregtaylor6146

Жыл бұрын

surely, you mean ....... Niiiiiiiice??? 😉

Fabulous. THATS LOW FLYING!!

The 2 dislikes are inverted pilots.....

@jonmarsden1366

3 жыл бұрын

Or maybe jealous Blue Angels pilots!

That clip of the Gnat (Ray Hanna?) following the undulation of the runway brings new meaning to "terrain following".

Ah the Gnat, such a lovely aircraft.

Low flying as well as following the contours of the runway. That’s the puppy. 😀

@BuggSmasher

3 жыл бұрын

FOD clearing before the start of the air display obviously!

@marcs990

3 жыл бұрын

I thought I would be the only one to pick that up, yup now that’s true nap of the earth flying, I’ve heard of many reasons why it’s called “nap” of the earth, I even think Wikipedia has it wrong (no surprises there) I heard of even pilots “& wiki” saying it’s called nap as it’s designed to catch the enemy off guard by flying under the radar n popping up at the last second when making your attack, thereby catching the enemy off guard (napping). I’ve argued with ppl who say it’s not nap it’s map of the earth flying, meaning u follow the lowest contours of the map/environment. The REAL meaning of NAP of the earth is that NAP stands for Near As Possible, that’s what many RAF pilots have told me so nap of the earth flying or abbreviated sometimes to N.O.E. & that’s good enough for me.

@airbrushingbynick6071

3 жыл бұрын

@@marcs990 . I don’t miss a trick. I’m ex RAF myself. Always loved the Gnat too. Had it’s moments with the Fly By Wire system as a few Pilots found out..

Stunning footage...the Arrows were truly breathtaking with the Gnat..

@kenstevens5065

Жыл бұрын

When I visited Scampton visitor centre some years ago there was a Gnat on display outside the Reds hanger, which visitors were allowed to wander round full of Hawks being serviced. The gnat is tiny compared to the Hawk. I think the Gnat was painted yellow, the yellowjacks being the RAF display team prior to the Reds. I regret not seeing the Firebirds 56 sqn EE Lightning display team, more important things like girlfriends took priority at the time!

@nervo6321

Жыл бұрын

I would dearly have to have seen the Firebirds a bit before my time as were the Blue Diamonds who were based a stones throw from where i live at RAF Leconfield.

Much better & daring than today's boring Red Arrows displays

When we were young we knew no fear

Remember these air shows well. Folland Gnat back in those days.

Yeah they still had gnats when I was a kid and though they were choreographed, they were flying by the seat of their pants. It was really something to see. The gnat was a beautiful little aeroplane, it's a shame we don't still have them. I bet the running costs would be a little more palatable. Sweet little bird 👍✌️☮️❤️

I love the cheesy music. They were proper hooligans of the skies back then.

How well I remember them flying like this. I worked as a civilian clerical assistant at RAF Kemble, Gloucestershire when The Reds were stationed there. We got to see them practising almost every day during our lunch hours. I loved the Folland Gnat; they were far more daring in those days (no safety regulations). I was so upset when they were moved to RAF Scampton. I rarely see them nowadays but usually get a glimpse when they perform at RIAT each year as RAF Fairford is only about 10 miles from where I live in Cirencester. They are the best in the world!!!

ps: the soundtrack is what makes this so special.

Hot shots!

Great video, thanks for sharing.

That is very early in the Red Arrows careers: five planes and no white stripes. Just the Yellowjacks re-painted!

Taking of like that made the Folland Gnat look like Swallows or Swifts, small birds, especially the wing configuration, high on the fuselage or when ducks glide.

The little swept-wing Folland Gnat jet trainer as used in the 1991 movie " Hot Shots ! " a parody on Top Gun ...

Amazing aircraft. Saw them flying across the rooftops in Portsmouth as a child

Love the editing 😍

I REALLY DON'T CARE what.othrrs say THESE ARE THE BEST , (GREATEST) in the world They are DEFINITELY 2nd to NONE!!!!

Used to live near RAF Shawbury, and they’d fly over our house in Grinshill during practice flights, awesome👍👍

@101stuey

Жыл бұрын

I was driving to Shrewsbury on the A53 one summers afternoon when the Red Arrows suddenly appeared above the hedge, taking off from RAF Shawbury, parallel to the road. It literally brought the traffic to a standstill, everyone pulled over onto the verge to get out and watch as they practiced a display.

Brilliant. I love it. Thanks for uploading this.

@rodthebass

Жыл бұрын

Aha- surprised you've only just noticed it. I uploaded it 8 years ago🤣

@Dr-Jamie

Жыл бұрын

@@rodthebass there's a mountain of content to get through on KZread! ;-)

Ron Burgundy is crushing it, 😄

The Gnat was a beautiful aircraft.

Best of the best... They are really so close

I actually saw them when I was a kid. We were on holiday and the were flying nearby. thinking back later I remember my late dad mentioning who they were and had only started that year.

Awesome mate! 👍✈️

Remember watching a pan English Electric Lighting do a similar very low runway fly past at an RAF air show for the RAF back in the 1980’s. We the crowd were kept safe standing behind a rope very close to the runway.

Super impressive!

Gnats still flying at North Weald...just up the road

Reminds me of the "Hot Shots" movie.

Big contrast to the modern day thinking of oh its raining we will stay on the ground instead attitude.

@hb1338

Жыл бұрын

It saves the snowflake CO from having to use the (in)famous phrase " he died doing what he loved best".

Pilot Officer Smith, a bit low on that session, sharpen the response up hmmm? Yessir.

Seeing the folland gnats reminds me of hot shots 1 😂

The Folland Gnat was a much better aerobatic aircraft being smaller and able to roll in well under 1 second.

Groovy Baby

Fookin Hell, imagine the health and saftey nazi in the RAF watching this today his piles would have burst.

Let's take a moment to recognize Ron Burgundy on the jazz flute

I grew up seeing these and others at airshows,these there is something a miss with them,I use to watch them doing cows the isle of wight as it fell around my birthday I always get really emotional seeing them,but now I feel as though the spark has gone there always seems to be problems I was going to see them at Bournemouth airshow and didn't go they had a birdstrike they are loosing their spark which is so sad to see

Damn! The were low

The editing made almost feel animated

Kudos to the cameraman

The music on the video dates the film!

@commoner5042

Жыл бұрын

It’s 55 years ago ffs.

I remember these red arrow jets going over our house in 1967 as a kid you could see the pilots white helmet they were that low..I think they were called Nats.

These were the original Danger Men!

World's best air acrobatics team.

Back wn the red arrows where fun 😄

Ray Hanna was team leader back then and he liked to fly super low. I was at Brighton as a kid and one of them hit a yacht between the piers and had to eject.

@anthonyeaton5153

Жыл бұрын

Look up Spitfire under bridge flown by Hannah

1:35 Hats of to the cameraman, who was not far off having no head, yet alone a hat.

@vinceversinceAU

Жыл бұрын

I could be wrong but aren't you meant to say "not far off losing a hat, yet alone your head" because losing a head is luckier than losing a hat.

Some of this is at Little Rissington. Did readers know that the aircraft sounds for Thunderbirds were recorded there. Apparently the most useful sound wasn't an aircraft but a machine used to start aircraft so I assume that was Thunderbird 2.

Spectators advised not to stand in front of these mad buggers😅

Ron Burgundy approves of the music choice.

The Yellowjacks Gnat G-MOUR is still on the register in private hands. Based at North Weald.

Is that Ron Burgundy on the jazz flute?

Those look similar to the planes they used in Hot Shots.

Groovy! 🤙

I remember this appearing in a video with Raymond Baxter.

@rodthebass

3 жыл бұрын

I used this piece as part of a compilation video put together for me by the SSVC (anyone remember them). I used it at the Reds 21st birthday party that I organised at RAF South Cerney, along with a giant cake. 700 people attended in the mega giant marquee.

Ray Hanna....

Very cool

Remember well the little red gnats at Gaydon 1966.!

Amazing how these planes were able to take off carrying the weight of the pilots' massive balls.

@gregtaylor6146

Жыл бұрын

Really ...... people are still coming out with such tripe???

@jmisolis

Жыл бұрын

oh no, everybody, please stop using this joke now so we don't make gregaylord here feel annoyed... oh no...

@gregtaylor6146

Жыл бұрын

@@jmisolis - Exactly!' EVERYBODY has 'used' this joke, and you continue to do so ........... like a brainless sheep, keep at it Luvvie, it's sooooo funny!!!!

The wonderful, beautiful, Folland Gnat. And boy are they low going down that runway. Little Rissington?

@rodthebass

3 жыл бұрын

Yes it was Little Ris.

@captaincrash9286

3 жыл бұрын

The famous hump in the runway being used to great effect! Oh, the Sundays I spent there hoping for the weather to clear... so many memories triggered by this short clip..

I seen one nearly hit the ground north of Cambridge, Waterbeach

great team

Low flying doesn't impress pilots. They call it "coming into land with the undercarriage up!" The real skill is in the close formation flying. Having said that there was a time when an American visitor to RAF Honington where I was based commented on the low level flying capabilities of the Buccaneer. He got a demonstration laid on as he watched from the balcony if air traffic control. A height of about 40 feet at most. The aircraft flew up and down the runway area and then to complete the demo he flew past air traffic control at a height that put his cockpit lower than the balcony and his wing tips just missing the building. That was flying at low level. A photograph was taken of the pilot which later hung in ops. I did not see him pass the control tower. I just saw a plane coming towards me at about 40 feet and climbing. I was actually walking towards the tower. I ducked! But what a sight. The year was somewhere around 1978.

@mikew2468

11 ай бұрын

The RAF trained for ground attack which is what was required in WW2 - Americans didn't, which is probably why they don't understand it.

@Baycliff

11 ай бұрын

@@mikew2468 Thanks. That adds to the story. Maybe you know the Red Flag (Nevada desert exercise) where the pilot describes how the buccaneer pilot would fly below 50 feet and as the plane peeked at the top of the mountain the pilot barrel rolled the plane and flew upside down on the descent before levelling out and dropping their charges. The ground crew told us, on their return, that the Americans could not understand how they could not spot the plane on the radar as it peeked. Marvellous

I loved the idea of weight saving in the Gnat. Why fit dive brakes when you can just use the main gear doors?

Looks Far Better than What they Do Now,Better looking aircraft as Well

The Gnat .. I believe the aircraft here ..

The Oscar EW-5894's early operation.

If the Reds minimum height was 35ft at the time, it must have been measured from 10ft above the fin!

The good old Gnat, the predecessor to the now used BAE Hawk T1. If only we were allowed to put on air shows like that still, but the health & safety brigade would have a stroke if they watched this video. When pilots were allowed to show off true stick n rudder controls. I love hearing about the old stories of the Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm & later the RAF pilots who when practicing or on military exercises in the Buccaneer and even red flag “arguments” that there’s no way we could of bombed targets because we weren’t detected until real proof was gained by range controls or other methods proving we had. Just because those guys could fly sooo low, going underneath power lines (there are some great pics out there if you hunt for them) I’ve seen a few where I was sure if they put their landing gear down it would of hit the ground. Those glorious days are now far behind us. Ex Eastern block countries still don’t have much health n safety and if u can it well worth going to one of those air shows as they still fly, maybe not as well, but they still put on an awesome show.

The health and safety toffs are pulling their hair out watching this.this is what the RAF should be like the best of the best.and not having to worry that they are flying two feet lower than they should.

@anthonyeaton5153

Жыл бұрын

Health and Safety is there to help try and reduce injury and death.

Ron Burgundy on flute, ladeeees and gentlemennnn

ah yes, the good old "Don't care, we look cool" days

Never mind the liw level stuff- can you imagine todays Red Barrow pilots- being told to take off with that much standing water on the rumway, or that cloud base.......they'd have to go and change their stockings......